Felting Friends: Celebrating Your Creative Expression

"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down."
- Arnold H. Glasow

Today would be a great day to reach out to just such a friend, one whom perhaps reminds you of your strength and abilities, your talents and brilliance, just when you need to remember it the most.

You ARE brilliant, and your expression is so very needed in this world. Let your soul shine in all you do, say and create today.

We appreciate you & we celebrate your creative voice.

As always, we wish you happy felting, and let us know if you have any questions or need any support by emailing us at
customer service@livingfelt.com

With Love,
Marie

Sue Hale of South Haven, Michegan
needle felted this wonderfu doll she calls Opal!

Sue used the Living Felt Needle Felting a Character Doll Kit
and added her own hand-sewn clothes. Since the kit teaches
"techniques" instead of a rigid pattern, every doll is unique and
results in great individuality from the artist....like those FEET!
I love the big pink toes :O)

Also visit facebook to see even
more great pics by our mutual felting friends!.

Tawana Wood of Commerce, GA wet felted this
lovely scarf as a "practice" piece.

Hi, my name is Tawana Wood and I live in Commerce, GA. Over the Christmas holidays I was surfing the web and discovered the world of wet felting. I had never seen scarfs so beautiful and I wanted to know how they were created. As I conducted my research, I came across your website and loved all of your products. Taking into consideration the fact that I am new to all things wool, I chose to start simple and ordered a couple of wet felting scarf kits.

Someone suggested to me that I may want to create a scarf using cheese cloth as my base, to practice with before proceeding with the silk one, just in case I mess up. I have attached a
photo of my “Cheese Cloth Wet Felted Scarf” as I wanted to share with you my creation.

I love your website along with all you have to offer, and I have shared my new found love with all of my friends. They can’t wait to get started on their own scarfs now. Thank you so much for providing such wonderful products. I hope you have a very blessed day. “

Tawana P. Wood ~ Commerce, GA

This scarf appeared on our Felting Friends Blog

Every month we give away Living Felt Gift Certificates
just for sharing your photos! Winners are selected by
random drawing of all entries for the month.
Send us your photos for a chance to win a Gift Certificate
for loads of felting fun from iIving Felt!

If you sent in a photo and don't see your entry, either it is yet to be
published or not clear enough for publication, we need clear, crisp photos
-- Please send the best photos you can! :)

More Felting Friends Pics on the Blog!

Living Felt Friends on Facebook

How to Submit Your Photos

We have a few different scarf kits on our website, and
each is available in an array of colors.
You can learn to make a "cobweb" scarf like the one above, or to nuno felt
which is to felt over fabric like Tawana did in her scarf pictured
in our Pic of The Week section of this newsletter.

Once you get the basics down, we have more wool fibers
and even silk scarves so you can make more.

Wet Felting Scarf Kits

English Garden | Spanish Fiesta

Fun colors and great fiber for your Spring Projects!
Whether you like it "light" or "bright", we've got an
assortment you'll love for your next project!

New Zealand Corriedale is great for needle felting,
and can also be used for wetfelting -- although it is not
recommended for scarves and "next to the skin" wear.
For those, use Merino Top.

New Zealand Corriedale Assortments

Considering a Multi-Needle Felting Tool?
Watch this brief demonstration video of Marie using some of our tools,
to needle felt balls, make pin cushion, needle felt a purse and more.

Needle Felting Tools

NOW AVAILABLE: The Living Felt 2010 International Felting Contest Winners are featured in a gorgeous article in
Art Doll Quarterly's Spring 2011 Issue

You'll LOVE this 7-page article that shares brilliant photos of all six winners, along with some insights
about them, their work and their feelings about participating in the contest.

We're still cooking up our plans for this year's contest, but in the meantime, be sure to bookmark the page
that will allow you to get your copy on the way!

Order your copy here

In 2010 Living Felt held an International Felting Contest with two themes: Felted Dolls
and Alice In Wonderland.

The contest was designed to inspire quality in craftsmanship, to encourage artists to reach for their very best effort, to create a lasting source of inspiration to artists, and to support promotion of felting as an artistic medium.

We received over 50 fabulous entries

Like this fun coffee press cozy by Sara Westberg		And this wonderful needled felted dragon by Irma Hoani of New Zealand

See all entries online here.

Join us on facebook, and become a friend of LIVING FELT where you can upload your felted creations for all to enjoy!

Sending My Blessings,
Marie Spaulding
www.LivingFelt.com ~ Act on Your Inspired Ideas!

P. S.
On behalf of all of us here at Living Felt, I thank you for your letters, emails, pictures, and facebook posts. We truly love hearing from you, receiving your echoes of joy at tapping into your Inner Creativity, feeling the wonder and exhilaration of expressing from your heart. All of us here read your notes, and we all give thanks that we can be of service in lighting up that brilliant, brilliant light within you, and reminding you that it was with you all along.